“Honoring Edward Tiryakian as a Metasociologist: A Metaconceptual Analysis of Prosumption and Related Concepts”. In Roland Robertson, John Simpson and Didem Buhari-Gulmez (eds.), The Art and Science of Sociology: Essays in Honor of Edward Tiryakian, Anthem Press, London and New York.

“Who’s a Public Intellectual?” British Journal of Sociology 57, 2, 2006: 209-213.

Can Globalized Commercial Architecture be Anything but McDonaldized, Nothing? (in German) In Gerd Zimmerman and Arie Graafland, The Domestic and the Foreign: Globalization in Architecture, forthcoming.

“Interviews with Leading Thinkers and Writers”, Aurora Online, April, 2006

Revolutionizing the World of Consumption in Journal of Consumer Culture 2002: 103-118.

Solidity in a World of Liquidity: The Persistence of Modernity in an Increasingly Postmodern World (with Jim Murphy), in Matthias Junge Kron, eds., Zygmunt Bauman. Stuttgart: Leske and Budrich, 2002: 51-79 (in German).

The Process of McDonaldization is Not Uniform, nor Are Its Settings, Consumers, or the Consumption of Its Goods and Services (with Seth Ovadia) in Mark Gottdiener, ed., New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Cultures and Commodification. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000: 33-49.

Globalization, McDonaldization and Americanization Annales De L’Institut International de Sociologie New Series, Volume V, 1996.

Agency-Structure, Micro-Macro, Individualism-Holism-Relationism: A Metatheoretical Explanation of Theoretical Convergence Between the United States and Europe. (with Pamela Gindoff) in Piotr Sztompka (ed.) Agency and Structure: Reorienting Social Theory. London: Gordon and Breach, 1994.

The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses. Pp. 1-30 in Ritzer, ed., Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Syntheses, 1990. Chinese translation appeared in International Sociology, vol. 2, 1989: 52-58.

Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metathereotical Tool. Pp. 347-370 in Ritzer, ed. Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Syntheses, 1990.

The New Economy? The (Perpetually) New Economy!: The Case for the Resuscitation of Economic Sociology. Work and Occupations, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989: 243-272.

Reprinted in Huw Benyon, ed., Patterns of Work in the post-Fordist Era.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007.

On the Paradigmatic Status of Sociology, American Sociologist, Feb., 1977: 23 (comment).

Implications of and Barriers to Industrial Democracy in the United States and Sweden, in Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Equity, Income and Policy: A Comparative Developmental Context (New York and London: Praeger, 1977): 49-69.

The Emerging Power Approach to the Study of the Professions, presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, September, 1975.

Work-Linked Democracy in Sweden: Policy Implications for America, presented at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1976.

Paradigmatic Conflict in Sociology: Still Another Fruitless Debate, presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, 1976.

Max Weber, Critical Theory, and the Administered World, (with Harvey Greisman) presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, September, 1978.

The Paradigmatic Status of the Sociology of the Professions, presented at the meetings of the International Sociological Association Uppsala, Sweden, 1978.

An Integrated Sociological Paradigm, presented at the meetings of the International Sociological Association, Uppsala, Sweden, 1978.

The Politics of Inter-Paradigmatic Conflict in Sociology presented at a conference in honor of Paul Lazarsfeld, The Political Realization of Social Science Knowledge and Research, Vienna, Austria, June, 1980.

Rationality: A Sociological Perspective presented at the meetings of the International Sociological Association, Mexico City, 1982.

The Rise of Micro-Sociological Theory presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, September, 1984.

The Sociology of the Professions: Dead or Alive? (with Keith Macdonald) presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, August, 1987.

Sociological Metatheory presented at the meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, March, 1988.

The New Socioeconomic Paradigm: A Metatheoretical Analysis presented at the Conference on Socioeconomics, Harvard University, March 31, 1989.

Micro-Macro Integration; Threats to an Emerging Consensus presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, August, 1989.

Metatheory as a Source of Theory: Prevalence, Uses, Excesses presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, August, 1989.

Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Crossroads in Contemporary Theorizing. Presented at International Conference on Social Theory and Human Agency, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, September, 1989.

The Social World of the Text: An Exploration into the Postmodern Problem of Knowledge in Sociological Metatheorizing. (with Michael Richards) presented at the meetings of the International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, July, 1994.

The McDonaldization of Society. presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1994

The New Means of Consumption. presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, 1996.

From Exclusion to Inclusion to Chaos (?) In Sociological Theory (with Doug Goodman) presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998

Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption: Enchanting the Disenchanted, presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998

The Relevance of Thorstein Veblen to the Contemporary Sociology of Consumption (co-authored with Jim Murphy and Wendy Wiedenhoft). presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 1999.

The Postmodern Ballpark as a Leisure Setting: Enchantment and Simulated De-McDonaldization in the Baseball Theme Park (co-authored by Todd Stillman. Paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association in Washington, D.C., August, 2000.

Globalization Theory: Lessons from the Exportation of McDonaldization and the New Means of Consumption. presented at conference Global America, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, 2000.

The Role of Credit Card Expenditures and Debt in the Increase in Consumption (with Todd Stillman and Seth Ovadia). presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, California, August 2001.

Islands of the Living Dead: The Social Geography of McDonaldization presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association in Chicago, Illinois, August 2002

“The Role of the Exportation of America’s “Logistical Technologies”
in the Decline of National Difference” presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August, 2006.

Major Professional Activities Since 1975

Chairperson, Session on Occupations, meetings of the American Sociological Association, 1976.

Lecture, “Modern Capitalism and Rationalization Processes: Consequences for Work Life.” Conference on Understanding Modern Organizational and Work Life More Deeply, The Confederation of Trade Unions, Oslo, Norway, June, 2010.

Lecture, Magistralis, University of Bologna, Italy, June 2010.

Public Lecture, University of Urbino, Italy, June 2010.

Public Lecture, Novo Cescot, Rimini, Italy, June 2010.

Main Speaker, Conference on the Retirement of Colin Campbell, York University, England, July, 4-5, 2010.

Johns Hopkins, United States Military Academy (West Point), University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University-Rotterdam, University of Duisburg-West Germany, University of Zurich, University of Berne, University of Lausanne, James Madison University, East Carolina University, University of Florida, Rollins College, William and Mary, Gettysburg College, Iowa State University (AKD annual lecture), New College, Ramapo College (Keynote Address, Curriculum Enhancement Conference in Sociology), American Chemical Society, George Mason University (Economics department), Vassar College, Marquette University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Georgetown University (twice), Roanoke College (twice), University of Amsterdam, Nijenrode University (Netherlands), University of Colorado, Colorado State University, University of Utah, Arizona State University, Florida International University, University of Surrey, University of Warwick, Staffordshire University, University of Aston, University of New Mexico, University of Tampere (Finland), University of Nevada  Las Vegas, St. Mary’s College, Groningen University (Netherlands), University of Tasmania (Hobart, AU), Deakin University (AU), University of Sydney (AU), Victoria University (Wellington, NZ), University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ), Auckland University (NZ), University of Essex (England), University of Alabama-Huntsville, University of Richmond, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Holy Cross University, NOPUS (Goteborg, Sweden), University of Alborg (Denmark), Drexel University, University of Tennessee, Institute of Economics (Moscow), Institute of International Studies (Moscow), Odense University (Denmark), AILUN (Sardinia), Latrobe University, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Sydney Institute of Technology (Australia), St. Louis University, Penn State-Abington, University of Gastronomic Science (Italy), University of Florida (twice), Lehmann College, Hebrew University.

1992 – 2000 Editor, PRIMIS, McGraw-Hill. A sociology database of
approximately 75 original chapters and essays.

1993 – Consulting Editor for St. Martin’s Press/Worth, Series on Contemporary Social Issues:

Mark Abrahamson, Urban Enclaves: Identity and Place in America
William Staples, The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and
Social Control in the United States
Charles Derber, The Wilding of America: How Greed and
Violence are Eroding our Nations Character
Erich Goode, Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization
Debate
John Hewitt, The Myth of Self-Esteem
Robert Bulman, Hollywood Goes to High School
Kathryn Farr, Sex Trafficking
Gili Drori, E-litism
Kevin Leicht and Scott Fitzgerald, Postindustrial Peasants

Mass Media
The results of interviews on McDonaldidzation, Expressing America and Enchanting a Disenchanted World have appeared in a number of newspapers including the Guardian (England), Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Austrian Courier, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Chicago Star, Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Times Higher Education (London), Aamulehti (Finland), Telegraaf (Netherlands), La Republicca (Italy); on CNN television in the United States, the German television network, ARD, the Dutch television network IKON, the Breakfast Show of the Dutch television network KRO, Finnish Television One, and on radio on the BBC (6 times including a half hour interview on Thinking Allowed in April, 2003), various German radio networks, National Public Radio (4 times, including twice on Marketplace and on Connections), Christian Science Monitor Radio, WSYR (Syracuse), and the Jerry Brown show on Pacifica radio. The New York Times (July 28, 1996), published an essay, America’s Quiet Rebellion Against McDonaldization. Essays authored by me include McDonald’s Schrijt de Wereld Zijn Recept Voor, in the Netherlands second leading national magazine, Vrij Nederland, February 14, 1998, pp. 18-19; Can Slow Slow Fast Food and the Fast Life? appeared in the Italian magazine Slow; Let’s Make it Magical: Disenchanted Universities Could Find Inspiration on the Las Vegas Strip Times Higher Education Supplement (London) July 6, 2001, p. 20; Korean Television did a special on McDonaldization; Newsday-Currents published an op-ed piece authored by me, More Than Just Burgers, March 2, 2003: A30, Newsday published an op-ed piece, McDonald’s Cooks Up a Fresh serving of PR (March 17, 2004), and many others.